Yesterday, I came across a new conference, at least new to me. It is called GOSCON or Government Open Source Conference. (here) It will be held in D.C. this year. I will be attending as the Comprehensive Diabetes Management Program (CDMP) that we are part of is a prime example of government using open source and making the results of projects open source. The development of CDMP was originally for the creation of a diabetes management application for military healthcare. It has expanded beyond that today, but still has its root in government. Because of it being funded by the government it is available license free to government institutions and it has always been given freely to interested researchers and third parties. We are currently working with our partners on officially declaring it open source, but working through the legal issues is taking some time.
Update 6/22/09 – The conference was rescheduled for Fall 2009. The decision to do this was based on conversations with the Obama administration and other IT leaders. No date has been announced. I find this to be fairly vague and while a lot will change and be formalized in the next few months regarding IT particularly in health care, one has to wonder if there was an attendance issue?
